Journal of Infrastructure Systems: Recent submissions
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Recent Advances in Modeling the Vulnerability of Transportation Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)It is well known that for major infrastructure networks such as electricity, gas, railway, road, and urban water networks, disruptions at one point have a knock-on effect throughout the network. There is an impressive ... -
Vulnerability Assessment of Water Distribution Networks Considering Performance Data
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)A methodology is presented for the reliability assessment of urban water distribution networks (UWDN) on the basis of component analysis, network topology, and—most importantly—survival analysis to include the effects of ... -
Data Collection and Organization by Smartphone for Infrastructure Assessment
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The collection and organization of data for infrastructure assessment have traditionally been laborious and lengthy tasks. Smartphones now provide the needed hardware and software to ease the burden of these chores. The ... -
Evaluating Flexibility in Water Distribution System Design under Future Demand Uncertainty
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Performance of water distribution systems (WDSs) is highly dependent on consumer water demand that has to be met with adequate pressure. With uncertain future water demand due to the effect of rapid urbanization and climate ... -
Measuring the Performance of Transportation Infrastructure Systems in Disasters: A Comprehensive Review
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)This paper provides a comprehensive overview of the literature on transportation infrastructure system performance in disasters. Specifically, it reviews those articles appearing in refereed journals, conference proceedings, ... -
Resilience-Based Design of Natural Gas Distribution Networks
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)The concept of disaster resilience has received considerable attention in recent years and is increasingly used as an approach for understanding the dynamic response to natural disasters. In this paper, a new performance ... -
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Conventional, Glass Powder, and Alkali-Activated Slag Concrete and Mortar
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This study compares the cradle-to-gate greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs), energy use, water use, and potential environmental toxicity of conventional (Conv), glass powder (GP), and alkali-activated slag (AAS) concrete and ... -
Fuzzy-Based Model for Predicting Failure of Oil Pipelines
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Oil and gas pipelines transport millions of dollars of goods worldwide every day. Even though they are the safest way to transport petroleum products, pipelines do still sometimes fail, generating hazardous and irreparable ... -
Fragility Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2001)Concrete gravity dams are an important part of the nation's infrastructure. Many dams have been in service for decades. During the service life of a dam, operating conditions and natural environmental factors may have led ... -
Approach to Fleet Contracting for Snow Plowing Operations
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Ensuring a transportation system’s operational efficiency and effectiveness is a challenge particularly for road maintenance agencies in winter times. Winter road maintenance involves snow plowing and chemicals/abrasives ... -
Comparative Analysis of Road Financing Approaches in Europe and the United States
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Road infrastructure has a remarkable economic and social impact on society. This is why road financing has always drawn the attention of policymakers, especially when resources available for government spending become ... -
Real Options in Infrastructure: Revisiting the Literature
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2015)Infrastructure networks are essential to support the world’s economic development. Governments around the world, in both developed and developing economies, have dedicated significant shares of the public budget to ... -
Empirical Model with Environmental Considerations in Highway Alignment Optimization
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The highway alignment optimization (HAO) process is a complex combinatorial optimization problem in which several conflicting factors, such as highway costs, user preferences, and environmentally sensitive factors, must ... -
A Dynamic Vehicle-Track Interaction Model for Predicting the Track Degradation Process
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Due to the repeated passage of trains, differential settlements are observed in the vertical direction of the railway tracks. These settlements depend on the platform quality, on the train speed, on the dynamic load, and ... -
Identifying FDOT’s Physical Transportation Infrastructure Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The objective of this research was to integrate current data sources to develop a methodology for assessing and mitigating the potential impacts of sea level rise (SLR) on Florida’s transportation infrastructure to assist ... -
Productivity Impact of Infrastructure in Turkey, 1987–2006
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This paper explores the impact of some key infrastructure measures in transportation, telecommunication, and electricity production sectors on labor productivity, using data on two-digit sectors for the Turkish economy for ... -
Restoration and Impacts from the September 8, 2011, San Diego Power Outage
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)This case study discusses post-event reconnaissance research of the September 8, 2011, power outage that left San Diego County, California, without electricity for up to 12 h. The objective of this case study is to synthesize ... -
Using a Negative Binomial Regression Model with a Bayesian Tuner to Estimate Failure Probability for Sewerage Infrastructure
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The replacement and maintenance of subsurface assets, such as water and wastewater pipes, is of great interest to water utilities because these infrastructure networks require large amounts of investment over time. Each ... -
Impacts of Energy Regulations and Vehicular Technologies on Fuel Tax Revenues
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)Various energy regulations including corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) are forcing auto manufacturers and auto distributors to improve the fuel efficiency of vehicles significantly over the next decade. Conversely, ... -
Financial Evaluation for Toll Road Projects Considering Traffic Volume and Serviceability Interactions
(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014)The rapid increase in both financial demands and the need for large and comprehensive highway infrastructure systems necessitates public authorities to muster support from the private sector. Public-private partnerships ...